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George Bugliarello

Chancellor
Polytechnic University
6 Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201

tel. (718) 260-3330
fax. (718) 260-3974

e-mail: gbugliar@poly.edu

George Bugliarello, University Professor, Chancellor and former president (1973-1994) of Polytechnic University is an engineer and educator whose background ranges from biomedical engineering to fluid mechanics, computer languages, socio-technology, and science policy.

Member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the Council on Foreign Relations, George Bugliarello also holds honorary lifetime membership in the National Association for Science, Technology and Society (NASTS). He is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and, from 1994 to 1997, chaired the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council.

Dr. Bugliarello is co-editor of Technology In Society-an International Journal, Interim Editor-in-Chief of The Bridge, the quarterly publication of the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on several editorial boards. He is a member and former president (1992-1993) of Sigma Xi, as well as Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (1996-98).

Dr. Bugliarello's international experience includes consultantships abroad for UNESCO and OECD, and assignments as a specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Venezuela and Central Africa. He is one of two U.S. members of the Science for Peace Steering Group of NATO, and continues as U.S. member of NATO's Science for Stability Steering Group (through December 1997).

In 1975, George Bugliarello spearheaded the creation of Metrotech, the large university-industry park that now surrounds Polytechnic University and of which Polytechnic University was co-developer with Forest City. Metrotech is in fact the largest urban university-industry park in the United States and has attracted well over 20,000 jobs, mostly from the financial industry.

In 1993, Dr. Bugliarello led the creation of the Center for Finance and Technology at Polytechnic and is currently working on the creation of a Center for Technology in Merchandising, the first such center in the nation to establish a direct connection between academic programs in engineering and the needs of the merchandising industry.

Education

Dott. Ing. (1951) University of Padua M.S. (1954) University of Minnesota Sc.D. (1959) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Previous Professional Experience

Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY

President (1973-1994)

University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) (1969-1973)

Dean of Engineering

Professor of Civil Engineering and Biotechnology, Dept. of Systems Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Professor of Biotechnology and Civil Engineering (1966-1969)

Chairman, Biotechnology Program (1964-1969)

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (1963-1966)

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (1959-1963)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Research Associate (1959)

Research Assistant, Hydrodynamics Lab (1956-1959)

University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Assistant to the Chair of Special Hydraulics Projects (1954-1955)

Professional Honors and Awards

University Professor, Polytechnic University
Member, National Academy of Engineering

Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellow, American Society for Engineering Education
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences
New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science & Technology (1994)
Engineering News Record Honoree, "Those Who Made Marks" in the construction industry - 1992, for the creation of Metrotech, the nation's largest urban university-industry park.
Honorary Lifetime Member, Nat'l Association for Science, Technology & Society
Honorary Member, Italian Society for the Advancement of Science
New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology (1994)

Honorary Degrees
Doctor of Laws, Carnegie-Mellon University (May 1986)
Doctor of Medicine, University of Trieste (January 1989)
Doctor of Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering (1991)
Doctor of Humane Letters and Science, Illinois Institute of Technology (1993)
Doctor of Humane Letters, Pace University (1994)
Doctor of Humane Letters, Trinity College (1997)

Trusteeships and Board Memberships

ANSER (Analytic Services)
Greenwall Foundation
Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science
Teagle Foundation

Selected Publications

George Bugliarello has authored, co-authored or edited several hundred publications, including:

Books

Bugliarello, G., N. Pak, Z.I. Alferov and J.H. Moore, eds., East-West Technology Transfer - New Perspectives and Human Resources, proceedings of the NATO advanced Research Workshop on Human Resources and Leadership for Technology Transfer between NATO Countries and Cooperation Partner Countries, Ankara, Turkey, July 18-21, 1994; Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1996.

Bugliarello, G. and D. Doner, eds., The History and Philosophy of Technology, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1979.

Bugliarello, G., Al. Alexandre, J. Barnes, and C. Wakstein, The Impact of Noise-A Socio-Technological Introduction, Pergamon Press, 1976 (reprinted 1997).

Papers and Articles

Bugliarello, G., "Biology, Society and Machines, American Scientist, May-June 1998 pp.230-232

Bugliarello, G., "Engineering and the Crossroads of Our Species", The Bridge, Vol.28, No.1, Spring 1998 pp.9-15

Bugliarello, G., "Telecommunities: The Next Civilization," The Futurist, September-October 1997, pp. 23-26

Bugliarello, G., "Engineering," in Encyclopedia of the Future, G.T. Kurian and G.T.T. Molitor, eds., Simon & Schuster Macmillan, New York, 1996, Vol. 1, pp. 238-240.

Bugliarello, G., "Urban Knowledge Parks and Economic and Social Development Strategies," Journal of Urban Planning and Development, ASCE, New York, Vol. 122, No. 2, June 1996, pp. 33-45.

Bugliarello, G., "Telecommunications, Politics, Economics, and National Sovereignty: A New Game," Airpower Journal, Vol. X, No. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 6-17.

Bugliarello, G., "The Globalization of Knowledge and Technology," in Marshaling Technology for Development, Proceedings of Joint Symposium of the National Research Council and The World Bank, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1995.

Bugliarello, G., "Metrotech: An Urban, University-Industry Park," The Journal of Urban Technology, R.E. Hanley, ed., New York City Technical College, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 41-48.

Bugliarello, G., "Engineering and Its Social Function: A Current Assessment," in Engineering As a Social Enterprise, Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering, NAE, 1990.

Bugliarello, G., "Hyperintelligence," The Futurist,, December, 1984, pp. 6-11.

Bugliarello, G., Towards the Technological University - the Story of Polytechnic Institute of New York, The Newcomen Society in North America, New York, 1975.